Ole Kristiansen wrote:look here
Ok, the extension cable can help, but in addition to 2 1080s, I also have a UAD-2, an NVidia Quadro, and an liquid cooling system. The last thing I want is to cram in a decklink card, troubleshoot any system instability it introduces, and then spend valuable time figuring out how to use it. Add to that the inconvenience of having to monkey around changing display inputs between my grading environment and other functions - for instance editing on premiere.
I'm one of the inexperienced graders some here are hating on. My monitoring is OK but not perfect. The quality of my monitoring is far from the weakest link in my work. Besides inexperience, not being able to monitor on a full screen while adjusting controls on a second screen has been a considerable obstacle.
I also by the way, do some proxie generation on location with a laptop. I like to do rough grades for my proxies. I often hook up to a second monitor - even less worthy of grading on than by studio monitor - but would love to full screen on it so I can move faster on those quick and dirty proxie grades. I sure as hell don't want to use up one of my USB slots that are already fully occupied copying files between backup drives (or cough up the cash for it).
If Blackmagic were concerned with ensuring the perfect environment for grading, and that their product is only used by fully outfitted color suites, they wouldn't give it away with their cameras and add editing capability. Anyway, how is having non pro users grading on a tiny window going to improve their quality of output? Nonsense! It's to force people to buy their hardware. Many other software companies have gone this route - Apple, Avid, Protools (before it was acquired by Avid), etc etc.
In case it's not obvious where I stand on software companies putting up needless functionality barriers, I post to this forum from a windows PC and Android phone.